Hal Borland Quotes

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
Hal Borland

Nature, Patience, Understand

A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart.
Hal Borland

Nature, Heart, Single

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
Hal Borland

Spring, Winter, Turn

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.
Hal Borland

Again, Once, Seen

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
Hal Borland

Patience, Strength, Company

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
Hal Borland

Nature, Challenge, Bird

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
Hal Borland

Night, High, Moon

A snowdrift is a beautiful thing - if it doesn't lie across the path you have to shovel or block the road that leads to your destination.
Hal Borland

Beautiful, Lie, Path

April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
Hal Borland

May, Keep, Promise

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland

Faith, Time, Wisdom

Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
Hal Borland

Long, Before, Days

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland

Faith, Time, Wisdom

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: May 14, 1900

Died: February 22, 1978

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